Week 2: Math + Art

 

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This week’s topic  relates to my life growing up and how I always loved both math and art. There are many activities throughout my life that I didn’t realize at the time actually combined the two, and this weeks readings touched on some of those creations. Working in entertainment has allowed me to experience how music is produced. As Polansky explains, music can often be created using a synthesizer, which is a device that truly combines math with art. Computer synthesizers use formulas that accept a sequence of values as input, and the result is music, a form of art.

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When I was little, I enjoyed experimenting with origami. Lang touches on how applications of origami can be used for engineering through the geometry that is used to create the complex folds. I was also fascinated with the creation of buildings, and I thought one day I would become an architect. Krishnammorthy’s article explains how societies have been using architecture to create their buildings for many years. The Seven Wonders of the World were created using architecture, another example of how when math is used to create a monument, an amazing form of art is the result.

Selikoff’s Giant Marble Chute is an example of an art piece that combines math, science and art. This piece is at an artistic exhibition on display for people to experience how it truly combines all three subjects. All the dimensions of the cardboard pieces have to be perfect in order for the plastic balls to travel through the course without falling off the tubes. In order to do this, both math and physics is used. 

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This week’s lesson further validated that often times when you combine two or more ways of doing something, the result can turn out extraordinary. This goes back to last week’s lesson of combining art with science, which can create the most innovative products. If you combine math, art and science, you can truly create something amazing, like societies were doing when they created the wonders of the world. People may not realize they are using other subjects in their practices, such as engineers who build beautiful works of art through the bridges they construct, or music producers using mathematical technology to create sound, but the results are truly incredible.  

Sources:

Abbott, Edwin A. Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions. N.p.: n.p., 1884. Web.

Henderson, Linda Dalrymple. The Fourth Dimension and Non-Euclidean Geometry in Modern Art: Conclusion. 3rd ed. Vol. 17. N.p.: MIT, 1984. Web.

Krishnamoorthy, Mukkai. "African Fractals." African Fractals. N.p., n.d. Web. 10 Apr. 2016.

Lang, Robert J. "Crease Patterns." Crease Patterns. N.p., 2004. Web. 10 Apr. 2016.

Polansky, Larry, Douglas Repetto, Dan Rockmore, and Mary Roberts. "Music and Computers." Music and Computers. N.p., 2011. Web. 10 Apr. 2016.